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The Delegates appointed to this. Convention assembled 
this day, May 3d, 1852, in the City of New Orleans, at the 
Lyceum, in the City Hall. 

On motion of Mr. C. C. Lathrop, of Orleans, the Conven- 
tion proceeded to organize, by the appointment of M. M. 
Cohen, Esq., as temporary Chairman, and J. B. Walton, as 
temporary Secretary. 

Mr- Cohen, upon taking the Chair, stated briefly the object 
of the Convention, in substance, as follows : 

Gentlemen — On me devolves the grateful duty of tender- 
ing to the delegates from abroad a cordial welcome. With 
pride and pleasure do I, as the organ of the City Delegation, 
greet you here as approved colleagues in a noble undertaking. 
We rejoice in an occasion which enables us to make the 
acquaintance of some and renew that of others among you. We 
will gladly avail ourselves of the benefits which arise from an 
exchange of ideas and a union of energies and intelligence. 

Among the many advantages to result from the Fair which 
we propose to hold, the first and the most precious is that it 
will create and continue kind feelings among citizens of dif- 
ferent States. Next to this sweet interchange of courtesies 
and promotion of friendship, I regard as the chief blessing to 
be conferred by the proposed Fair, the stimulating the skill 
and enterprise and developing the resources of our country, 
the spread of commerce and the diffusion of knowledge Nor 
among its results would I forget the advancement of agricul- 
tural, mechanical and other industrial pursuits. 

It will also tend to diversify labor and find new employment 
for industry and encourage manufactures. We have the raw 
material, the provisions, the coal, wood and iron, and we should 



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now manufacture coarse cottons, yarns and sails — aye, and 
build ships too ; we would thus save freight, insurance, com- 
missions and interest. 

But to pursue this train of thought would lead me too far. 
I return, therefore, to the immediate objects of our Convention. 
Among these, you will decide whether or not, it is expedient 
to hold, at proper intervals, a series of Industrial Fairs and 
Exhibitions in the several States of the South and West. If 
it should embrace, as far as possible, all the products of human 
industry — the fruits of the soil and domestic animals — the pro- 
duce of mines and quarries, the means, methods and products 
of manufacture, the useful and ornamental arts, and scientific 
professions, and all improvements, discoveries and inventions — 
it will be your duty to determine if contributors and exhibitors 
should be invited without geographical distinctions or limits, 
and to devise the ways and means for obtaining, (what Kossuth 
calls) " material aid." It will be yours to arrange and sub- 
divide the objects of Exhibition into suitable classes — to raise 
a Special Committee for each class, and one General Commit- 
tee authorized to prescribe regulations for the Special Commit- 
tees, and to award medals, premiums, etc. You will decide 
also upon the expediency of appointing an Executive Commit- 
tee in New Orleans, which can act from the adjournment of 
this Convention to the opening of the Fan*, in promoting its 
success, and a like Committee for each State represented in 
this Convention, which Committee will be located in the State 
which it represents, and correspond and co-operate with the 
Executive Committee in New Orleans. 

The period is auspicious. It is a time of universal peace, 
and peace hath her victories, no less than war. It is an age J 
of thought and the triumphs of civilization. The present is \ 
the reign, not of the sword and terror, but of the pen and the 
press, which places in the general happiness the renown of the I 
individual \ 

We now admire above all other Caesars, the-faine of Augus- 
^ tus, who sat between the poets Horace and Virgil, and boasted > 
I that he found Rome of brick but would leave it of marble. 
Ours is the duty, not of soldiers, but of citizens. To be heroes 
in the present age we must be benefactors — cheer the people 
\ on to excellence — take struggling merit by the hand — awaken 
dormant genius — lead out latent talent, and find, in the good 
of all, not only the business but the glory of each. 

Gentlemen, the Convention is now ready for organization. 

On motion of Mr. Lathrop, of Orleans, a Committee of 

one from each Delegation in the Convention was appointed to 

nominate Officers for the Convention, and on a further motion 



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each Delegation was requested to select a Delegate to act on 
said Committee. The following named Delegates were ap- 
pointed as the Committee : 

Major CHASE, U. S. E Florida. 

O. G. JEWETT, Mobile Alabama. 

GEORGE REESE, .... Macon Co.,. .Alabama. 

THOMAS AFFLECK Mississippi. 

T. G. NOEL Jefferson City. 

NEWTON RICHARDS Orleans. 

On motion, Jacob Ott, from the Mechanics Society of 
New Orleans, was added to the Committee. 

The Committee having retired, reported the following 

through their Chairman, Major W. H. Case, of Florida : 

M. M. COHEN, for President. 

J. B. WALTON, > «■ ,,„ VTva 
C. C. LATHROP, I Secretaries. 

And the Committee asked further time to Report the names 

of Vice-Presidents. On motion the Report was adopted. 

Mr. Cohen, on assuming the Chair, as President of the 
Convention, addressed the meeting, tendering his thanks for 
the honor conferred upon him. 

On motion, it was Resolved — That G-entlemen present from 
States from which no Delegates have been appointed, he re- 
quested to act in behalf of those States, and take part in the 
proceedings of the Convention, and that they be requested to 
hand their names to the Secretaries. 

On motion of Dr. N. B. Cloud, of Alabama, the following 
named Delegates were appointed a Committee of Eleven to 
report at an adjourned meeting, business for the Convention : 

Dr. N. B. CLOUD Alabama, Chairman. 

S. W. OAKEY Orleans. 

THOMAS AFFLECK Mississippi, 

W. H. CHASE Florida. 

GEORGE REESE.... Alabama. 

SAMUEL JAMISON Orleans. 

CHESTER ROOT Alabama. 

CHARLES PRIDE Orleans. 

CHARLES J. LEEDS Orleans. 

T. S.JAMES Alabama. 

T. G. NOEL Jefferson City. 

On motion of Mr. Reese, of Alabama, Dr. A. L. Plough 

s was added to the Committee. 

On motion of Mr. Isaac Croom, of Alabama, the President 



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appointed the following named gentlemen a Committee of 
three, to report Rules of Order, for the government of the 
Convention : 

ISAAC CROOM Alabama, Chairman. 

G. B. YOUNG Orleans. 

W. B. HARALSON Alabama. 

On motion of Mr. C. J. Leeds, of Orleans, the Convention 
adjourned, to meet this evening, at six o'clock, at the Lyceum 
Hall. 

M. M. COHEN, President. 



J. B. Walton, 
C. C. Lathorp 



Secretaries. 



£beiiiiig Session). 

Monday, May 3d, 1852. 

The Convention met pursuant to adjournment, M. M. 
Cohen, President, in the Chair. 

The Minutes of the morning session were read, and ap- 
proved. 

Mr. Croom, of Alabama, from the Committee on Rules 
for the government of the Convention, made the following 
report, which, with the resolution, were adopted : 

REPORT. 

The Committee appointed to report Rides of Order for the 
government of this Convention, beg leave to report : That, 
as the parliamentary law is based upon common sense and 
true courtesy, and embraces, probably, every provision which 
will be found necessary to regulate our proceedings ; and, as 
a tedious detail of rules would induce an unnecessary loss of 
time and labor, your Committee have deemed it advisable to 
recommend the subjoined Resolution, in which, they ask the 
concurrence of the Convention : 

Resolved, That the Parliamentary Law recognized by the 
House of Representatives of the Congress of the United 

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States, so far as applicable, be adopted by this Convention 
for the govenment of its proceedings. 
Respectfully submitted. 

GEO. CROOM, Chairman. 

Christian Roselius, Esq., having been invited to deliver 
an address, was introduced by the President to the Conven- 
tion. He addressed the Convention at length, illustrating the 
great usefulness and importance of the objects which are in- 
tended to be accomplished by the meeting of this Convention : 

He considered this one of the most important movements 
that had been undertaken in a quarter of a century, to advance 
the interests of New Orleans and the South West. No sub- 
jects were of greater importance than the mechanical and 
industrial interests. Alluding to the great facility of travel 
now, with the use of steam, as compared with the difficulties 
of communication in this valley twenty-five or thirty years 
ago, he traced all this to the inventive genius of the country, 
and the unceasing progress of the age in the mechanical arts. 
Science, which was formerly the exclusive property of the 
recluse, a mere unapplied theory, has become subservient to 
art. This is an age of practical progress, and the great truths 
of science are seized upon to apply them to art, ministering 
to the wants and comforts of life. 

These results were not brought about by the efforts of any 
single mind. Among the great minds of the age, there were 
many whose individual exertions had stimulated this progress, 
but the great improvements of the age, were the result of 
collision of mind with mind ; the collision brought about 
by the assembling of people from distant parts, as in this 
Convention. 

Knowledge is power, and how is knowledge to be diffused ? 
The printing press is a mighty diffuser, but is only one means 
of conveying useful knowledge ; it sows the seed. That seed 
must be cultivated, and the plant must be nurtured by asso- 
ciations, such as are now proposed in the South West ; such 
as have been flourishing in the North for years. It is by the 
exhibition of our agricultural productions, of our mechanical 
skill and ingenuity in such fairs as is recomme nded to be held 
here, that we improve our industry, and extend our useful 
information. 

As an incentive to perseverance on the part of the friends 
of this movement, he referred to the vast benefits consequent 
upon the World's Fair at London. Like the mixing of 
nations on the plains of Jerusalem, in the crusades, that Fair 



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taught mankind to know each other, and enlightened and ele- 
vated people. The result of that great exhibition was not 
limited to the exposition of the gorgeous fabrics of the East 
and the West, the North and the South. That was the least 
good. A lesson had been learned which was beneficial to 
; mankind, and glorious to the United States. Our people 
were there pre-eminent in the mechanical arts. We taught 
the self-styled mistress of the seas that, in naval architecture, 
we excel her ; we taught her agriculturists the great economy 
of our reaping machine ; and now the tone of the English 
newspaper and periodical press is an acknowledgment of the 
incomparable superiority of the " Baltimore Clipper, " as 
well as the greatness of our mechanical genius. 

The direct and indirect benefits, the immediate and distant 
influences of the Fair proposed to be held in this city, were 
dwelt upon at length by Mr. Roselius. One of the great 
objects to be achieved in the South and South-West was to 
create a domestic mechanical industry. We are dependent 
upon those whose principles are against us, for clothing, for 
furniture, and for a thousand other things which should be 
made by people residing among ourselves, whose interests and 
whose feelings will be identified with ours. This end will be 
approximated by the Fair proposed. 

Mr. Roselius closed with an appeal, addressed to all peo- 
ple in the South-West, to encourage this and kindred projects. 
By elevating the South to an equality with the North in self- 
relying industry, the permanency of the Union will be secured, 
beyond the possibility of a rupture. 

Dr. N. B. ClouDj of Alabama, from the committee ap- 
pointed to report business for the action of the Convention, 
made the following report, which, on motion, was adopted : 

Mr. President and Gentlemen of the Convention — 
The Committee of twelve which was instructed to report busi- 
ness for the action of this Convenion, have instructed me to 
report the following preamble and resolutions, as embodying 
the objects contemplated in our assemblage, in which they 
ask the concurrence of the Convention : 

Whereas, Ample experience in the whole civilized world 
has shown, that great Public Fairs, embracing an exhibition of 
natural and industrial productions, afford one of the best 
means of stimulating the industry, and developing the re- 
sources of a people •, that while they tend to the promotion of 
commerce, and the enlargement of the general wealth, they 



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contribute to the increase and diffusion of knowledge, and to 
the establishment of friendly feelings among the people of 
different sections of country. 

Be it therefore Resolved : 

1st. That it is expedient to hold, at proper intervals, a series 
of Industrial Fairs and Exhibitions in the several States of 
the South and West. 

2nd. That it is expedient to hold the first one of these 
fairs at New Orleans, beginning on the first Monday of Feb- 
ruary, 1854, to be styled " The Great South-Western Indus- 
trial Fair and Exhibition of all Human Industry. " 

3rd. That this fair be made to embrace, as far as practica- 
Ible, all the products of human industry, the fruits of the soil, 
and domestic animals ; the produce of mines and quarries ; 
the means, methods and products of manufactures ; the use- > 
ful and ornamental arts, and scientific professions ; and im- 
provements, discoveries and inventions of any description, J 
tending to the physical and intellectual advancement or benefit 
of mankind. '( 

4th. That we invite contributors and exhibitors, without 
geographical distinctions or limits. j 

5th. That there shall be a Central Executive Committee at > 
New Orleans, to consist of twenty -five members, to be ap- J 
pointed by this Convention, with power to appoint domestic 
and corresponding secretaries and other officers, and to act 
from the adjournment of the Convention to the opening of 
the Fair, in all matters necessary and proper for promoting the 
objects and success of the Fair. 

6th. That there shall be a State Executive Committee for 
each State to be appointed by the Executive of the State, 
whose duty it shall be to correspond and co-operate with the 
Executive Committee of New Orleans, and to take charge of 
the interests of said Fair within the State for which they were 
appointed. 

All of which is respectfully submitted. 

N. B. CLOUD, Chairman. 

On motion of Mr. Croom, of Alabama, it was 
Resolved, That the President appoint a Committee of six 



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from the New Orleans delegation to report names of delegates 
to compose the Executive Committee, required by the fifth 
resolution contained in the above report. 

The President appointed on that committee 
C. ROSELIUS, JAMES GOLDING, 

H. W. PALFREY, A. G. BULL, 

A. W. SCATES, DR. J. L. RIDDELL, 

Mr. N. Kichards, of New Orleans, presented the follow- 
ing resolution, which was adopted : 

Resolved, That a Committee of three persons "be designated 
by the Chan-, to prepare and publish an Address to the peo- 
ple of the South and South-Western States on the importance 
and advantages of the proposed Industrial Fan*. 

The President appointed on that Committee the following 

named Delegates from Orleans : 

Rev. Dr. W, A. SCOTT, 
Col. H. W. PALFREY, 
HANDEL HUNT, Esq. 

On motion, the Convention adjourned, to meet on to-mor- 
row, at twelve o'clock, M. 

M. M. COHEN, President. 




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THE INDUSTRIAL FAIR CONVENTION, 



The Convention met at half past twelve o'clock yesterday. 

Mr. Cohen, as President, announced after the reading of 
the minutes, that the unfinished business would be proceeded 
with. Thereupon the committee, on the appointment of offi- 
cers, made the following report : 

The Committee, yesterday, agreed upon the following per- 
sons as Yice Presidents of the Convention, but expecting 
other States to be represented, postponed a report till to-day. 

For Yice Presidents : 

Florida. JOSEPH FORSYTH, 

Alabama ISAAC CROOM, 

Mississippi THOMAS AFFLECK, 

Louisiana RANDEL HUNT. 

The Committee of six, appointed to report an Executive 

Committee, reported the following list : 

C. ADAMS, Jr., GEORGE ALLEN, 

MAUNSEL WHITE, N. C. FOLGER, 

S. J. PETERS, G. C. LAWRASON, 

M. M. COHEN, JOHN HAMPSON, 

W. C. C. CLAIBORNE, SAMUEL LAWRISON, 

C. DANNAIS, C. G. FORSHEY, 

F. LABATUT, PAUL E. THEARD, 

W. H. GARLAND, MORIS EASTMAN, 

J. W. BREEDLOVE, H. R. SWAZEY, 

R. H. CHILTON, DANIEL EDWARDS, 

NEWTON RICHARDS, S. H. PEET, 

C. C. LATHROP, B. H. PAYNE. 
J. B. WALTON, 

The report, with a resolution which accompanied it, author- 
izing the committee to fill all vacancies which may occur in 
their own body, was unanimously adopted. 



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Afterwards, on motion, the following gentlemen were added 
; to the committee : 

C. ROSELIUS, A. G. BULL, 

A. W. SCATES, DR. J. L. RIDDELL, 

JAMES GOLDING, COL. PALFREY. 

On motion of Mr. Croom, of Alabama, the President was 

\ authorized to add to the committee appointed to draft an 

| address to the people of the South-West, on the advantages 

of the proposed Exhibition, a gentleman each from the States 

; of Mississippi, Alabama and Florida. 

The President appointed the following gentlemen : 

COL. ROOT Alabama. 

J THOS. AFFLECK Mississippi. 

\ MAJ. CHASE Florida. 

Mr. Cloud, of Alabama, then addressed the meeting, 
< briefly, but forcibly urging the advantages which fairs of the 
the kind proposed, would exert on the industrial resources of 
the country, as follows : 

Mr. President and Gentlemen of the Convention 

In arising to respond to the unmerited and entirely unexpect- 
ed call made upon me, by the kindness of my friends in the 
Convention, I will remark, that a most excruciating and pain- 
ful headache will entirely preclude my attempting to discuss 
the merits of this magnificent enterprise, in which we are en- 
gaged. Indeed, gentlemen, in the up-country where I reside, 
and am known, I am not recognized so much a man of speech- 
making, as an active and determined operator in the manipu- 
latory appliances of improved plantation economy, and other 
kindred industrial pursuits of our common country. In my 
native Carolina, I was raised with the plough ; its continued 
and growing importance to the progressive destiny of man, in 
this new world of ours, I early learned ; and in the State of 
my adoption, Alabama, for the last twelve years, unceasingly 
and with a fixed and unwavering determination, have I, 
though humbly, labored for the dawn of this era, in which the 
productive industry of our country — agricultural, manufac- 
tures and the arts — is to receive, at the hands of an intelligent 
and great people, that position which nature and nature's Grod 
have assigned it. Hence the reason, sir, that I have the 
honor of participating here, in this preliminary movement. 

England, our Father-land, has set us a most praiseworthy 
example, in the triumphant success of the Crystal Palace. 
Shall we not benefit by it — may we not improve upon it ? 






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Resolved 2. That said Committee also inform the authori- 
ties of these States, that any specimens of art, industry, &c., 
will be gladly received from them and placed in positions at 
the Exhibition that will draw attention to the growing impor- 
tance of those regions. 

The importance of these resolutions, Mr. President, become 
at once apparent, when we come to examine, geographically, 
the position and the relation of the countries to which they 
allude, in reference to ourselves and our growing Gulf com- 
merce. "What the Sun is to the Planetary system, this Mex- 
ican era is destined to become to the commerce of the world. 
I need hardly tell you, sir, that its enormous commerce, in 
round numbers, already amounts to $200,000,000, a prize 
which our people will not, nor should they, spare any honora- 
ble means of controlling. That we should foster kindly feel- 
ings and the friendliest relations, therefore, with the various 
powers on the Gulf- American policy, it seems to me clearly 
indicates. The leading object of our institutions is the high- 
est interest and greatest good of man, universal 'peace. Then, 
sir, let us cordially invite those authorities to participate with 
us in this great Industrial Exhibition and Fair. What can 
give more interest or attract more attention to our proposed 
Exhibition than a conspicuous display of the choice tropical 



j Ah, gentlemen, may we not erect here a rural bower, upon j 
\ the banks of this Father of Waters — in the midst of the \ 
Crescent City — adorned and panoplied with the plain and \ 
simple, yet pure emblems of our American institutions, and \ 
richly stored with every necessary appliance of genius and \ 
art, which shall loom up before the industrial American goal j 
of a master effort ? Success will certainly crown our efforts, j 
if we have determined this thing in good earnest. Let j 
but a liberal, high-toned, American policy characterize our > 
exertions in the promotion of this great enterprise ; let the 
palm of honorable competition be open to every individual 
industrial man upon the continent, and no petty prejudice 
then can harm us. As a prelude, therefore, gentlemen, to 
our policy, I hope the Convention will adopt, unanimously, 
the resolutions which I hold in my hand, and will read, as the 
beginning of this great work. 

Resolved 1. That the Central Executive Committee be 
hereby directed to extend invitations, in writing or by circu- 
lar, to the Captain-G-eneral of Cuba, the President of Mexi- 
co, and the authorities of Nicaragua, Guatemala, and other 
Central American Republics, to participate in the Grand In- 
dustrial Fair to be held in New Orleans in 1854. 



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fruits of those regions, in all their multifarious varieties and 
perfection, with their rare mineral and coral specimens ? I 
believe, sir, that an invitation, thus extended, "will be properly 
appreciated, and receive in return such response as shall be 
productive of the happiest results to our enterprise. 

Mr. Groom, of Alabama, then addressed the meeting, pre- 
senting his views in a very interesting and forcible manner, 
and urging the propriety of taking active measures to forward 
the interests of the proposed exhibition, as follows : 

' Mr. President and G-entlemen of the Convention — 
Having been unexpectedly called upon at the close of our 
interesting meeting, to address you, and being unaccustomed to 
public speaking, I can only promise you a few homely truths, 
plainly, and it maybe incoherently spoken. Prompted, how- 
ever, as they will be, by the feelings of a bosom filled with 
devotion to the great cause of industrial reformation in the 
South and West, I trust that then- importance and the sin- 
cerity with which they are enunciated will atone for any want 
of grace or order in their arrangement. 

And first I will ask who are we ? We are the representa- 
tives of four great States ; it will be no hyperbole to say, when 
referring to then* extent and their unlimited resources, of four 



infant empires. 

Allow me briefly to advert to these States, and to begin 
with the State of Alabama, which I am proud in fact to re- 
present on this occasion, no portion of the world within the 
same limits embraces more of the elements of wealth and 
prosperity. In her climate, in her varied mineral resources, 
in fertile lands, in water-power, in her . luxuriant forests, in 
her two thousand miles of navigable rivers, in her commercial 
emporium, upon which the larger and better half of these 
waters concentrate, Alabama presents an unsurpassed, if not 
an unequalled coinoination of physical blessings. The begin- 
ning of the present century saw her a lonely wilderness, tra- 
versed by the footsteps of the roving savage, the middle of 
that century beheld her filled with an intelligent and enter- 
prising population, with farms, villages, towns and cities, with 
many of the arts and appliances of an advanced civilization ; 
and besides all these, the largest cotton growing State of the 
same extent in America. 

In passing West, we next come to the rising State of Mis- 
sissippi, which in climate, in fertile soil, noble forests, rapid 
development, in the amount of her cotton crop, and of the 



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navigable waters which surround her, is scarcely surpassed by 
her Eastern sister. 

Next is the interesting peninsular State of Florida, bounded 
on the East by the Atlantic, on the South and West by the 
Grulf of Mexico, possessing in Pensacola the best harbor be- 
tween the Chesapeake and the Bio Grande, and adjacent to 
the fine harbor of Brunswick, with a ship channel uniting the 
Atlantic and the Grulf, an event certain and at no distant day 
the world's commerce will pay her tribute and subserve her 
uses. With her immense supply of ship-timber, her tropical 
climate, her large quantity of productive lands, and her insular 
position-, Florida should occupy a high stand as a commercial 
State. 

And what, Mr. President, shall I say of your own Louisiana? 
Here imagination pales before reality. I declare, sir, when I 
contemplate the twelve or more thousand miles of navigable 
waters flowing through the million of square miles of the Mis- 
sissippi valley, rendering accessible and draining an area capa- 
ble of sustaining a population of two hundred millions, with 
every variety of soil and climate, and with countless stores of 
mineral wealth. I repeat, sir, when I contemplate these mag- 
nificent streams, flowing through such regions, like so many 
arterial ramifications, and uniting on the Father of waters, to 
form one grand artery, by which the life's blood of the valley is 
thrown on New Orleans, its great heart, to vivify, to sustain it, 
to magnify and adorn its proportions, fancy droops her 
pinions, and owns her inability to have dreamed of such an 
extraordinary union of commercial privileges. But this is not 
all — when the obstacles shall be «removed to a direct communi- 
cation between the Grulf, Atlantic and European ports, on 
the one side, and California and China on the other, New 
Orleans will be the half-way-house on the commercial road of 
the world. Hither will come the Northern and European 
argosies freighted with the gold of California, or the teas and 
silks of China, to exchange their precious cargoes for the cot- 
ton bales and provisions of New Orleans, more valuable to 
Europe than gold or Eastern luxuries. 

But why detain you, gentlemen, with a dry detail of facts 
with which you are all familiar ? Why waste time to establish 
the admitted fact, that ours is the most highly-favored spot 
on the bosom of our broad land ? Possessing then, a land 
teeming with the bounties of a kind Providence, abounding 
with the resources of a high civilization, the inquiry obviously 
arises, why are we here ? 

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to-day to destroy the tares which have been sown among our 
wheat while we slept ; to eradicate the thorns and brambles 
which are choking up this goodly heritage of ours, by a vio- 
lation on our part of the Divine decree — "In the sweat of thy 
brow thou shalt earn thy daily bread." 

We are here, because the grain and stock growing States of 
the West and North-West, and the mechanics and manufac- 
turers of the Northern and middle States annually take from 
us the proceeds of our cotton and sugar, making us hewers of 
wood and drawers of water, for their aggrandisement. The 
cotton crop of the South- West both for the last and the pre- 
sent commercial year, may be put down at near seventy mil- 
lions of dollars, and if a proper portion of this was retained by 
making a liberal share of our provisions, and only one-fourth of 
it manufactured, thereby trebling the value of that fourth, our 
cup of prosperity would be filled to the brim. As it is, our 
seventy millions of exports, which are constantly cheating us, 
as individuals, and as States, with the delusive hope of accu- 
mulating wealth and prosperity, as regularly fade away as the 
morning mist or the early dew. 

Our Atlantic brethren are besides engaged with an untiring 
zeal and energy to deprive us of the invaluable boon of ex- 
changing our products in our own markets — so tempting is 
the prize, that no obstacle can impede their progress. The 
lofty hill is brought low, the everlasting mountain is prostrated, 
and the mighty rivers are bridged over. To accomplish this 
result, so important to the Atlantic ports, but so deleterious to 
those of the G-ulf, every enterprising city from Boston to 
Savannah, both inclusive, is* stretching out its iron bands to 
bind itself to the great Mississippi valley, and each of which 
is designed as a great artery to steal away the life's blood from 
the Gulf cities. When all these railroads shall be com- 
pleted, and all the trade North of Memphis secured, and, 
perhaps, a large portion of the cotton and sugar South of that 
point, what will be the condition of New Orleans and Mobile ? 

Already the trade of the Upper Mississippi, of the Ohio, 
and even of the Cumberland and Kenawa valleys, is taking 
the circuitous route by the Northern Lakes to New York, 
rather than continuing to float on the descending current to 
New Orleans. Already has New York wrested from New 
Orleans the trade of the West and North, as will be made 
manifest by the following tabular statement, which gives the 
aggregate receipts of each article for the years 1848, 1849, 
and 1850, by the Mississippi river, at New Orleans, and by 
the New York canals, at Albany and Troy : 



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Receipts 
at New Orleans, by River : 

Flour lbs. 2,312,121 

Pork 1,536,817 

Beef 201,901 

Wheat bush. 852,497 

Corn 9,758,750 

Other Grains 5,350,151 

Bacon lbs.135,622,515 

Butter 6,215,970 

Cheese 8,955,880 

Lard 292,110,000 



Receipts 
at Albany and Troy, by Canal : 

Flour lbs. 8,636.207 

Pork 211,018 

Beef 264,072 

Wheat bush. 8,798,759 

Corn 11,178,228 

Other Grains 11,210,239 

Bacon lbs. 26,364,156 

Butter 61,695,964 

Cheese 97,596,632 

Lard 27,137,175 



This table shows that New Orleans only retains the advan- 
tage in the products of the hog, and a New York writer of high 
standing says, that on the completion of the system of rail- 
roads now in process of construction, connecting the great 
valley with the Atlantic marts of commerce, an attempt will 
be made to direct the trade in bacon, pork and lard from its 
present channel. 

However ample the causes indicated may have been to 
bring us together on this occasion, for the laudable purpose of 
devising some remedy, still there are other evils incident to 
our condition, which equally oppress us, and not less require a 
remedy. 

When we look abroad upon the face of our favored region, 
the eye and the heart are not cheered by new towns and vil- 
lages recently sprung up, nor by the extension and improve- 
ment of old ones. Our farm-houses are going to decay, the 
soils of our fields instead of improving, are annually deterio- 
rating, and we become oppressed by the conviction, that if 
not actually retrograding or standing still, our progress is so 
slow, as daily to leave us further in the rear of other States 
and cities, which are moving with accelerated speed in the 
great race of human progress. The inquiry becomes an im- 
portant one, why is it so ? A kind Providence has not with- 
drawn its blessings from us. On the contrary, our section for 
the last two years has been blessed with the means of temporal 
prosperity, beyond all precedent. Our country at large is 
growing in wealth and power every day. The exports for the 
year 1851, the last fiscal year reported, exceeded the average 
of the previous four years, by sixty-four millions of dollars, 
and the imports for 1851, exceeded the average of the same 
four years, fifty-three millions of dollars. Look at New 
York and Massachusetts, two of the most flourishing States, 
which the sun in his daily course shines upon. Nature has 
furnished the latter with nothing but rock and ice for export, 
while the former probably consumes more than is grown on her 
own soil. Why is it so, and how has it happened that Boston 
and New York, the commercial emporia of these two States, 



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J have nearly doubled in wealth and population in the' last 
I decade, while New Orleans and Mobile made comparatively 
] so little progress ? 

Internal improvements by means of canals, railroads, and 

< plankroads, the application of science to agriculture, a proper 

^ encouragement of mechanical skill and industry, with the union 

\ of the plough, the loom and the anvil, solve the seeming para- 

j dox, When these means are judiciously used, prosperity is 

I the result, and when they are neglected the contrary is 

> equally certain. 

We have good cause for congratulation, that Mobile and 
$ New Orleans have waked up from a long Yan Winkle nap, 
I in which an inglorious torpor had long bound them. Like the 
[ spoiled child of Spartan, mused in the lap of indulgence, they 
vainly nattered themselves that they were so bountifully pro- 
vided for by nature, that it was only necessary for them to fold 
then arms in listless indolence and say u Soul, take thine ease, 
eat, drink, and be merry." This delusion has, we are proud to 
say, passed away, and these cities have now in project, and in 
process of construction, magnificent lines of railroad, which will 
place them at least on an equality with the Atlantic cities in 
the noble contest which is to take place on the great theatre 
of the Mississippi valley, for its inestimable trade. 

" No vulgar prize they play, 
No vulgar victim must reward the day." 

The South-West also owes a heavy debt of gratitude to the 
able and zealous efforts made by the Railroad Convention, which 
met here in January last. Then labors have already told in 
Tennessee, in Mississippi, and in Louisiana, and must continue 
to exert a salutary influence in behalf of this invaluable im- 
provement in all the South-West. 

But railroads, indispensable as they are, form but one of 
the necessary measures for the highest attainable prosperity. 

The improvement of our agriculture, by applying to it the 
discoveries which science has made in the last quarter of a 
century, and which are yet in their infancy, the encourage- 
ment and stimulus of mechanical talent and industry, a diversi- 
fication of labor and capital, a system of practical and scientific 
education, and the elevation of labor in social esteem, the 
development of our mineral treasures, and adequate rewards 
to merit, in literature, the arts and sciences, will all prove im- 
portant auxiliaries to this enviable result — and just here, 
gentlemen, are disclosed our duties, and here our labors should 



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begin. For the promotion of the objects just specified, which 
must form the pivot of our success, this Convention is now 
assembled. 

Following the example of other flourishing States and Na~ 
tions, we hazard but little in resolving that the first step we 
take in this great movement shall be, to establish Industrial 
Exhibitions for the South-West. That they may be made 
eminently useful in securing the objects contemplated, the 
history of every civilized State in Europe and the most pros- 
perous States in our country, abundantly proves. I need j 
only refer to the example Gf England and Belgium abroad, > 
and to those of Georgia, Maryland, New York, and Massachu- i 
setts, at home. The State Fairs of Georgia stand almost with- j 
out a rival in the confidence and esteem of her citizens. J 
Speak of abolishing these fairs, and it would call forth a 
burst of popular indignation but little short of that which > 
> should threaten the overthrow of the Government. Whence \ 
arises this conviction and regard in the minds of that sagacious J 
| and practical people, but from an unshaken faith in the benefits \ 
\ produced by these fairs, in fostering the best interests of the 
State ? Are they mistaken in this ? Let the history of that 
noble State for the last ten years answer. No Southern State '> 
has kept pace with her. New villages, towns and cities have 
sprung into being, old ones have been enlarged and beautified, ? 
manufactures have been multiplied, railroads have increased, j 
agriculture has been reformed, agricultural journals well sus- ' 
tained, stocks improved, and in the increase of population I 
comparing favorably with the most prosperous States of the } 
Union. 

G-eorgia is worthy of our imitation. She deserves our 
respect and gratitude for having by her enterprise and energy 
annihilated the opinion which had exacted a benumbing in- 
fluence on many Southern minds, that our peculiar Institution 
was incompatible with a high prosperity and a dense popula- 
tion. She has indubitably established the truth, that like 
causes will produce like effects in Georgia, as in New York, or 
s New England. 

I had the pleasure of attending the State Fair at Macon last 
fall, and I hesitate not to say, that the articles exhibited, 
\ although perhaps on a more limited scale, yet, in variety and 
\ excellence would have been creditable to New York or. Mas- 
sachusetts. On that occasion, you will allow me to say, that 
the premium for the best steam engine was awarded to a citizen 
\ of Alabama. It was manufactured at Montgomery, of native j 
\ iron, as I learned, and from its seeming perfect adaptation of \ 



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parts and high finish, it could hardly be surpassed. Gentle- 
men, how delighted all of us would be to see a classical statue 
of our venerated Washington, chiseled from Alabama marble, 
on exhibition here in February, 1854. 

It is unnecessary to dwell on the good effects of industrial 
exhibitions in the other States, u ab uno disce omnes." It is 
sufficient to say of them that they are daily increasing in public 
regard. Witness the World's Fail' which it is proposed to 
get up in the city of New York, in addition to the great State 
Fair. 

One word on the subject of the Great London Exhibition, 
before commencing. 

When that Exhibition was first spoken of, it was sneered at 
by some and ridiculed by others. Now, I wish to say that the 
reputation which the United States acquired abroad, the self 
respect and confidence derived at home from the occasion, 
altogether constitute a moral treasure which would have been 
cheaply purchased by the entire cost of the Glass Palace and 
its appendages. To say nothing of the other advantages which 
we secured by that Exhibition, what man is there with an 
American heart who does not prize beyond all price the world's 
award of the first premium in naval architecture, the first in 
agricultural implements, and the first for that ingenious and 
perfect piece of mechanism, the inimitable bank lock ? Con- 
sequences such as these may not have been anticipated from 
the World's Fair. But we do hope for valuable moral results 
from our exhibitions. We hope they will teach us that we 
have resources of every kind within ourselves, moral as well as 
physical ; teach us that it is time to throw off the shackles of 
dependance, by a practical demonstration of the truth, that by 
a proper use of our faculties and our advantages, we have it in 
our power to be one of the most prosperous and independent 
people on the globe. 

Indulge me, gentlemen, a few moments longer. The Mis- 
sissippi Valley and the race which now occupy it, are mutu- 
ally fitted for developments, such as the world has not seen, 
nor hardly " hath it entered into the heart of man to conceive. " 
Of Anglo-Saxon lineage, distinguished for its enterprise, ac- 
tivity and indomitable energy, spnmg like Minerva, all armed 
and grown up, from Jupiter's brain, and fitted to take rank in 
the advanced civilization of the nineteenth century ; with a 
Religion pure and undefiled and coming from God himself; 
with an unparalleled Government ; with the aids of the Steam- 
ship, which places Christendom in juxtaposition — the Steam- 
car, which makes a nation, as it were, a neighborhood ; with 



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the Magnetic Telegraph, which can make the great American 
heart beat with one pulsation ; and, with such a region, too, 
as theirs, what barrier shall stay them, or what voice but that 
of Omnipotence shall say, " Thus far shalt thou go, and no 
farther ? " 

To fulfil their high destiny, however, they must make avail- 
able every faculty of mind and body. They must bear in 
mind that labor — diligent and unremitting labor is the condi- 
tion of all great achievements. The syren voice of pleasure 
must pass unheeded. The allurements of ease and self-indul- 
gence must be resisted. 

Should we, however be seduced by temptations such as 
these, from our high duties and best interests, what was beau- 
tifully and pathetically said of Modern Greece, will not less 
truly be said of us in future story — 

" And all save the spirit of man is divine. " 

But down-trodden and fallen Greece has an apology which 
we could not offer. 

Greece, Italy, Carthage, Egypt and Babylon, although 
semi-barbarous in their infancy, yet the zenith of Pagan civi- 
lization formed their culminating point. An over-ruling 
Providence has doubtless, for wise purposes, imposed a law 
upon nations, as well as upon individuals, from which there is 
no escape. And that law metes out their existence into the 
three several stages of infancy, manhood, and old age with its 
infirmities and its decrepitude. 

Should we, in all that vigor of a stalwart infancy, urged on 
by the bright vista of a brilliant future, to be ours if we will it, 
forfeit our huge estate by falling off into an imbecile manhood, 
and immature servility, we will, as we deserve, go down to 
future ages, 

" Unwept, unhonored and unsung. " 

And, in conclusion, gentlemen, allow me to congratulate 
you on the zeal and harmony of our proceedings and the hap- 
py issue of our labors. We have accomplished all that was 
practicable thus far. We have appointed the Executive Com- 
mittee, composed of thirty-one of the most intelligent, public- 
spirited and influential citizens of this great city, who, with 
the co-operation of Executive Committees from other States, 
are to get up an Industrial Exhibition at this place in Febru- 
ary, 1854. For one, and all of us, I say, I have no fears for 
the result. We all feel confident that this Committee will do 
credit to themselves, that their work will do honor to their 



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I- city and State, to this Convention and to the entire South- 
' West. 

A resolution was then adopted, authorizing the publica- 
tion of the proceedings of the Convention, with the principal 
j speeches which had been delivered, in the newspapers of this 
;. city, and in pamphlet form. 

After a very lengthy discussion, a resolution was adopted, 
empowering the Executive Committee to call another conven- 
tion, if at any subsequent period it may be deemed necessary # 

Dr. Plough, in a brief address, expressed his approval 
of the measures which had been taken for the holding of the 
Great Exhibition, and his hearty co-operation therein. 

On motion, the thanks of the Convention were then returned 
to the President for his assiduous efforts in presiding. 

The Convention then adjourned, sine die. 



M. M. COHEN, President. 




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PBOilEiSliS 



OF THE 



After the adjourment of the Convention, the Executive 
Committee convened and organized by the election of the 
following officers, and the substitution of other gentlemen as 
members of the Executive Committee to fill vacancies : 



SOUTHERN INDUSTRIAL FAIR CONVENTION, 

June 16th, 1852. 

OFFICERS. 



President , 


...CHRISTIAN ROSELIUS. 


Vice President.... 


...GEORGE ALLEN. 


Recording Secretary 


...J. B. WALTON. 


Corresponding Secretary . 


...M. M. COHEN. 


Treasurer ,.-...- 


...SAMUEL JAMISON. 


1 Members of Central 


Executive Committee. 


COL. H. W. PALFREY, 


DANIEL EDWARDS, 


A. W. SCATES, 


MOSES EASTMAN, 


JAMES GALLIER, Jr., 


DR. E. H. BARTON, 


EDWARD GRINNELL, 


C. M. WATERMAN, 


J. W. ZACHARIE, 


J. M. BACH, 


ALEXANDER BULL, 


B. F. FLANDERS, 


DR. J. L. RIDDELL, 


C. G. FORSHEY, 


NEWTON RICHARDS, 


C. C. LATHROP, 


COL. SEYMOUR, 


W. R. SWAZEY, 


WILLIAM FRERET, 


PAUL E. THEARD, 


DR. D. MACAULAY, 


GEORGE C. LAWRASON, 


REV. H. N. McTYEIRE, 


JAMES GOLDING. 


WILLIAM H. GARLAND, 


L. MILLAUDON. 



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Mr. Cohen expressed his regrets at being compelled by 
his numerous eng^ements to decline the honor of acting as 
Corresponding Secretary ; but the Committee urging his ac- 
ceptance of the appointment, the matter was laid over for 
future action. 

At a subsequent meeting, it appearing that Dr. Scott, 
who had been appointed chairman of a committee to report 
an address, had been prevented by sickness from discharging 
that duty, the following gentlemen were, on motion ap- 
pointed a committee for that purpose : 

MESSRS. C. G. FORSHEY, M. M. COHEN, 
NEWTON RICHARDS. 

They reported the following, which was adopted and or- 
dered to be printed: 

ADDRESS: 

To the Public on behalf of the Executive Committee of the 
Proposed Industrial Fair and Exhibition, to be held 
in the City of New Orleans, Louisiana, commencing in 
February, 1854. 

The undersigned Committee, appointed to address the pub- 
lic on behalf of the Executive Committee, beg leave respect- 
fully to announce, that at a Convention held in New Orleans 
in the month of May, 1852, it was unanimously determined 
that there should be held, at that city, An Industrial Fair 
and Exhibition, to commence in the month of February, 
1854; and that the friends of Industry, Knowledge and 
Progress every where, be invited to join in the proposed 
Exhibition. 

The Convention, composed of delegates from several 
neighboring States, commenced an organization by instituting 
a permanent Executive Committee, at New Orleans, charged 
with the duty of carrying into effect the purposes contem- 
plated. 

In the name of the permanent Committee, we make the 
announcement of their united labors, and address to the pub- 
lic this, their earnest invitation, to form similar auxiliary 
committees in every community, village, town and city, and 



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communicate with the central organization, that the prepara- 
tion may he general and harmonious for a great Jubilee of 
Enterprise in the South-Western United States. 

In laying a plan for an Exhibition* of Industry, the liberal 
views of the Convention gave it the widest possible range ; and 
although it is necessarily local, as to the place of exhibition, 
still, it becomes our duty, as it is our highest gratification, 
to extend the invitation to all who appreciate Progress, 
and strive for the triumphs of Industry, in whatever land this 
may reach them. 

The inquiry will very naturally arise, what are legitimate 
objects of exhibition at an Industrial Fair ? 

The answer we propose for this is, Whatever are the legiti- 
mate objects of Mental and Physical Labor. The enlight- 
ened mind finds them wherever it turns. Where the objects 
or subjects of Industry, cannot themselves be brought forward, 
the methods of performing that labor, may be presented. 
There is nothing wrought by the hands of man, guided by his 
thought, that is not an object of improvement, that may not 
have a better adaptation to its purposes — a greater efficiency — 
a higher success. And when the best results in each depart- 
ment of labor are brought forward into one common arena for 
comparison, discussion and analysis, a lesson may be learned 
by each exhibitor, from his competitor ; and the reciprocal 
triumph shall render both the happier and the better men. 

Contemplating, as we do, the widest range in our invita- 
tions, as to country and clime, so would we desire to carry out 
the views of the enlightened assembly that constituted us the 
central organ of their plans, and extend to the laborers in every 
field of useful industry, an earnest solicitation to come for- 
ward with their products, their results, their models, or their 
methods, to our proposed Exhibition and Fair. 

In one great undertaking, we have recently had a sublime 
example. Upon a field where science had experienced some 
of its grandest triumphs, and art for centuries had numbered 
many of its most enthusiastic votaries, there assembled, from 
all the quarters of the earth, and the distant islands of the 



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\ seas, the cultivators of industry, to a congress of art, such as 

history never rec^fced. It was a new epoch in civilization ; 

\ and from it a new era has burst with mid-day refulgence. 

( v upon the labors of man, in Science, Letters and Art. 

In that grand Exhibition, Eoyalty itself led the van, and thus 
indirectly gave its Sanction and aid, to the most stupendous 

; democratic movement the mind could devise. The progress 
of man toward the establishment of the great doctrine of 
equal rights, is not less rapid than his progress in other fields 

; of knowledge and industry ; and this voluntary recognition of 

i that principle, from crowned-heads, is indelibly recorded and 

\ established, in such an unalterable manner, that no tyrant's 
craft or coup d'etat, can cancel or regain it. When Prince 

\ Albert and the Queen of England invited all men, " of 
every nation, kindred and tongue, " to assemble, in an 

\ equal contest, on the arena of Science, Letters and Art, 
they tacitly admitted what they never can recal, and the 

) event demonstrated in a thousand ways, that the Empire of 

] Knowledge is true Democracy. 

The recognition of the new Era of Industry has already 
been pronounced, in the North-Eastern portion of the United 
States ; and as the movement there had precedence of our 
own, we have postponed, the date for the South-Western Fair. 
The two Exhibitions should not occur at the same time, nor 
so near the same period, as to prevent those who would exhibit 
at the one from transferring their specimens of industry to 
) the other. 



At the London Exhibition there was produced almost an 
encyclopaedia of Art, Manufacture and Design. The exhibi- 
tors and their wares, were too numerous to present even a 
catalogue of their classes, in this address ; but we would call 
special attention to certain peculiarities noticeable in that ex- 
hibition. \ 

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The objects exhibited were strongly illustrative of the char- 
acter of the races or people who produced them. Thus, a 
leading difference between American and European products 
of exhibition seemed to consist in the greater fineness, and 



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higher beauty and finish of the European, and the greater 
strength and usefulness of the American JB 

It is well known that the great characteristic of our people 
is energy in the pursuit of the useful. For the harmonious 
development of our capacities as a people, however, we need 
some of the refining influences of higher art and severer 
taste. An aggregate result, like that evolved at the great 
London Fair, must be respected. While preparing for a new 
exhibition of our powers and capabilities, in comparison with 
men of other countries, let us endeavor to illustrate what the 
short interval of two and a half years may develop e in the re- 
fining influences of a greater degree of knowledge. And 
while none of us would exchange our higher energy and 
utility for their superior refinements, it is our privilege to sup- 
ply what we lack, without loss or diminution of what we 
possess Let us demonstrate the correctness of this position 

at the Fair of 1854. \ 

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Again, at the World's Fair, the department of Mechanical 
Industry had a vastly greater number of exhibitors, and their 
products had a higher merit, than the department of Letters, 
Art, or Agriculture. 

The difference was due, in part, to the greater facility in < 
the transportation and exhibition of machinery than in those 
of agriculture ; but also partly, too, to the impression, which 
we are anxious to correct that excellence in methods of agri- 
culture and its products could not be well tested at the Fair ; 
and that it is scarcely such a subject of rivalry as to be bene- 
fitted by an exhibition. 

For ourselves, and the citizens of neighboring States, such 
an impression would be very unfortunate. We are not a \ 
manufacturing people, and a very small portion of our industry 
is found in the workshops. Beyond the limits of our cities 
the labor of the South-Western United States is mainly occu- 
pied in agriculture ; and we do, therefore, most earnestly 
solicit the aid of the tiller of the soil in every department, 
at the coming Exhibition. j 

The same cordial invitation is extended to the cultivators 



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of Art and those of Mind. It is a mistake that the hands, 
undirected by the head, are alone the objects of exhibition 
and manly rivalryF 

Intellect claims for itself a distinct department. It is plain 
that the great thinkers are the leaders of mankind, the pro- 
pellers of this wonderfully progressive age. Let them, then, 
exhibit the results of their labors, and by fan* contest on a 
larger field, display their lights, for the benefit of others. 

In conclusion, we repeat, on behalf of the Executive Com- 
mittee, the earnest invitation to all who would acquire for 
themselves, or impart to others, the highest excellence yet at- 
tained in human industry, to prepare in due season for a great 
Congress of Labor. We would appeal to the Press for 
its kindly aid. "We would appeal to the best motives 
that actuate the human breast, the noblest impulses that 
give life and triumph to human energies. It is the age 
of progress, the era of an exalted and virtuous rivalry. Let 
there be no more slumbering of our mental and physical pow- 
ers, but let us meet like men who know and appreciate their 
duty and their destiny, upon the great modern arena, the In- 
dustrial Gymnasium. 

And in the name, and on behalf of the City of New Or- 
leans, we promise a hospitable reception and a hearty wel- 
come to the " Tournament of Peace. " 

C. G. FORSHEY, 
M. M. COHEN, 
NEWTON RICHARDS. 

New Orleans, Louisiana, ") 
August 5, 1852. J 

The Executive Committee then adopted the following 
Constitution and By-Laws : 



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CONSTITUTION AND BY-LAWS 

OF THE 

CENTRAL EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE, 
FOR THE INDUSTRIAL FAIR 



CONSTITUTION. 

Article 1. — The Officers of this] Committee shall consist of a President, 
and Vice-President, a Recording Secretary, a Corresponding Secretary, and 
a Treasurer, who shall he chosen from among the Members of the Committee. 

Article 2. — The Election of Officers shall be by Ballot, at the regular 
annual meetings of the Committee, a majority of the votes determining the 
election. 

Article 3.— A quorum for the transaction of business, shall consist of 
at least nine members. 

Article 4. — The meetings of the Committee shall be held in the City 
of New Orleans, at the Hall of the Mechanics' Society, unless otherwise de- 
termined at adjournment. The annual meetings shall be held on the first 
Wednesday in Juno, and the regular meetings shall beheld monthly, on the 
first Wednesday of each month. 

Article 5i — The Funds of the Committee shall be appropriated — first, 
for the necessary expenditures of the Committee ; and next, for the advance- 
ment of the great object we have in view — namely, the holding an Industrial 
Fair, at the City of New Orleans, in 1854. 

Article 6. — Special meetings may be held by adjournment, or by call 
of the President, on the application of any three members. 

Article 7. — Absence at three consecutive monthly meetings, without 
excuse or explanation, shall forfeit membership, and the Committee shall pro- 
ceed to fill the place by ballot. 

Article 8.— The Executive Committee shall be divided in Sub-Com- 
mittees, as follows : 

1st — Committee on Correspondence. 

2d — Committee on Finance. 

3rd — Committee on Exterior Management. 

4th — Committee on Interior Arrangement. 

5th — Committee on Locality and Structure of Edifice. 

6th — Committee on Printing ; 



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And each Sub-Committee shall be charged with all the duties which its title 
imports, and shall rendB^the regular monthly meetings. 

Article 9— Alter^^Bof this Constitution may be made by a vote of 
three-fourths of the rwHbers present, at any regular meeting, after one 
month's notice of the proposed change. 



BY-LAWS. 

Article 1. — The President shall preside at all meetings when present, 
and shall sign all documents emanating from the Executive Committee. 

Article 2— In the absence of the President, his duties shall be performed 
by the Vice-President. 

Article 3. — In the absence of the President and Vice-President, a 
Chairman pro. tern, shall be chosen to perform the duties of President. 

Article 4 — It shall be the duty of the Recording Secretary, to keep 
in a book provided for that purpose, a record of all the proceedings of the 
Executive Committee, and to furnish copies of the same when required by the 
President, or by a vote of the Committee ; to sign all the warrants as provided 
in Article 6, of these By-Laws, to notify members of V.l meetings, by placing 
notices in the post-office at least two days before the meeting, and by publica- 
tion in at least one paper in the city. 

Article 5. — It shall be the duty of the Corresponding Secretary to con- 
duct the correspondence of the Committee ; and he shall receive for his ser- 
vices a compensation proportionate to the labor, to be fixed from time to time 
i by the Executive Committee. 

Article 6. — It shall be the duty of the Treasurer, to keep all monies of 
the Committee, in such banking institution as shall be designated by the 
Finance Committee, in the name of the Executive Committee of the Industrial 
Fair. He shall pay no monies, except on the warrant of the acting President, 
countersigned by the Recording Secretary, He shall keep a correct account 
of receipts and disbursements, and submit quarterly statements for the exam- 
ination of the Finance Committee, as well as monthly reports of the state of 
the treasury. 

Article 7. — The Sub-Committees shall report quarterly the character 
and extent of their operations. 

Article 8 — These By-Laws may be altered or repealed at any regular ; 
meeting, by a vote of two-thirds of the members present. 



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The following committees were appointed in conformity 
with article 8 of the foregoing Constitution. 

Committee on Corre spoil dene e. 

M. M. COHEN, B. F. FLANDERS. 

Dr. E. H. BARTON, Rev. H. N. McTYELRE, 

Dr. D. MACAULAY. 

Committee on Finances. 

J. W. ZACHARIE, NEWTON RICHARDS, 

ALEX. BULL, JNO. M. BECK, 

WM. H. GARLAND. 

Committee on Printing. 

Col. H. W. PALFREY, PAUL E. THEARD, 

A. W. SCATES, W. R. SWAZE^, 

GEO. C. LAWRASON. 

Committee on Management. 

DANL. EDWARDS, MOSES EASTMAN, 

J. B. WALTON, EDWARD GRINNELL, 

W. FRERET. 

Committee on Locality. 

C. M. WATERMAN, GEORGE ALLAN, 

C. G. FORSHEY, SAML. JAMISON, 

JAMES GOLDING. 

Committee on Arrangement. 

Dr. J. RIDDELL, Col. J. G. SEYMOUR, 

L. MILLAUDON, JAS. GALLIER, Sr., 

C. C. LATHROP. 

M. M. Cohen, Esq., persisting in his resignation of the 
office of Corresponding Secretary, Dr. Macaulay was unan- 
imously appointed to discharge its duties. 

CHRISTIAN ROSELIUS, Chairman. 

New Orleans Executive Committee. 
J. B. Walton, Recording Secretary. 




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